Saturday not *quite* under covers with the Wailing Souls
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Album:Reggae Anthology: The Channel One Story
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Winston "Pipe" Matthews and the boys had been performing together for at least six years before they first recorded for Coxsone Dodd. In the early seventies, they must have cut about fifty tracks at Studio One, the most versioned of which was undoubtedly "Back Out With It". Coxsone himself recut it with Lloyd Williams, Ernest Ranglin, Jackie Mittoo, Pablove Black, Brown Eagle, King Stitt and Lee Perry (!).
When the Hoo Kim brothers at Channel One studios in Maxfield Avenue started shamelessly raiding the Studio One archives for good rhythms to revive in 1975-77, they soon alighted upon "Back Out With It", and brought the Wailing Souls in to record a new tune over the rhythm - "Things and Time". Incidentally, they re-remade the track in 1983 for Henry "Junjo" Lawes, since when the tune has been versioned by dozens of other artists such as Frankie Paul, Supercat, Cutty Ranks, Admiral Tibbett and Jah Thomas.
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The island's hottest deejay in 1977 was probably Lester "Dillinger" Bullocks, enjoying vast success with the tunes releassed on the "CB200" album, although Trinity was running him close with his cuts for Joe Gibbs. Here he is on the riddim, with "Natty B. Sc", partly a riposte to Shorty the President's "Natty Pass Him GCE" recorded for Joe Gibbs.
This is my era. Saturday afternoon would inevitably be a walk over to Rough Trade, see what new riddims they had in (shared love for Joe Gibbs); around the corner to the new reggae shop; up to Portobello Road and the street vendor with old records; over to Honest Jon's for this week's shipment from Jamaica.